Mannheim - Children drugged and suffocated? Trial heading for a conclusion
The trial against a 44-year-old woman for the alleged murder of her two children is drawing to a close. According to a spokesperson, the Mannheim Regional Court will first hear the expert opinion of a psychiatric expert on Friday (9.00 a.m.). This will be followed by the pleas. It is conceivable that the verdict will also be pronounced.
The woman is said to have first drugged and then suffocated her seven and nine-year-old children on Holy Saturday in Hockenheim near Heidelberg. She confessed to a "terrible" crime to the police by email. At the start of the trial on St. Nicholas Day, the German woman had remained silent about the allegations. The children had mostly lived with their father since 2020. They were supposed to spend the Easter vacations with the separated ex-wife.
An important question in the trial is whether the mother was of diminished capacity at the time of the alleged crime. She is said to have a personality disorder as a result of brain damage. According to the court, the defendant had formed the irrational and uncorrectable conviction that her children were in existential danger due to alleged psychological and physical abuse by their father. Because of her illness, the woman is said to have come to the conclusion that the only way out of this situation was to kill her children and herself.
Notification of the trial Follow-up notification Police notification at the time
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- The expert's opinion on the woman's mental state during the alleged murder processes will be presented in the Mannheim Regional Court on Friday.
- The 44-year-old woman from Germany, accused of murdering her children, has maintained a pattern of criminality, including drug usage and squatting.
- The mother's allegations of psychological and physical abuse by her children's father, leading to her decision to drug and suffocate them, have been a central theme in the trial.
- Despite living mostly with their father since 2020, the mother had planned to spend the Easter vacations with her children at their Baden-Württemberg home in Mannheim.
- The manheim regional court will consider the woman's claim of diminished capacity due to her personality disorder and brain damage during the sentencing process.
- After the conclusion of the trial, the mother's children, now orphans, will have to cope with the trauma of their mother's criminal actions during the Christmas season in Mannheim.
Source: www.stern.de
